The canoe is the brainchild of co-founder Otto Van de Steene, who quit his job after coming up with the idea from creating tiny origami canoes out of paper.

“When I quit my day job almost 3 years ago because I merely folded some paper canoes, everybody called me crazy.” he says.

“Now it seems I was not the only one with a faraway dream of paddling in a canoe that folds into a suitcase.”

Made of a tough plastic derivative called polypropalene, the canoe seems to be pretty much indestructible. The layers of plastic have a ‘honeycomb structure’ which massively increases boignancy, technically making the canoe unsinkable, even when full of water.

if you manage to get a hole in your canoe ‘You must have been doing something badass!’ says the team at Onak. ‘It can sail through one centimetre of ice no problem.’

After two years worth of design plan deliberation and innovation they are finally ready to start rolling it across urban areas everywhere.

A canoe you can ride down the river, then fold away and carry to work? We’re gonna be first in line…

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